Word: ellington
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Jones added that the "first line" of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Basie, should one day be regarded as the Brahmses, Beethovens and Bachs of black music...
Levin will then lecture on instruments and style. The course will also focus on the differences between the "great black bands" like those of Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington as well as comparison with "the white bands," including Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw...
...shuns labels for his polystylistic music--particularly fusion, a term he feels has "nothing but negative connotations"--preferring to describe it as jazz, pure and simple. "Jazz is the all-inclusive form," he explains. "There's room for everybody, for anything of true musical substance. Jazz guys like Duke Ellington or Miles Davis have always transformed the elements of the pop culture that surrounds us into something more sophisticated and hipper. It's their...